Healthcare workers already bookmakers’ favourite to be named Time’s Person of the Year

First responders and healthcare workers are the favourites to be named this year’s Time Person of the Year, according to bookmakers.

The odds of doctors, nurses, health workers and first responders being given the illustrious title have been slashed from 4/1 to evens, according to odds comparisons site Oddschecker. Other medical-related selections are also faring well with the World Health Organisation (WHO) currently at 4/1 despite the repeated attacks on the agency by U.S. President Donald Trump.Li Wenliang, the late Chinese doctor who raised the alarm on the COVID-19 pandemic, is currently 7/1, as are the U.S. Centres for Disease Control and Prevention and Anthony Fauci, the country’s top infectious diseases expert.

Healthcare workers have been gathering praise the world over for their tireless fight against the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, with confined people taking time every evening in numerous countries to applaud them. At least 82 NHS staff and 16 social care workers have died from the virus in the UK; in France, 25 healthcare workers have so far lost their lives; in Italy, the most heavily-impacted country in Europe, 151 medical staff have succumbed to the disease.

Source: Euro News